Cold Fusion MX

[admin]

Cold Fusion MX is coming with in 2 weeks we will have it installed on all H-Sphere Windows 2000 servers..

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Finally sign up for a reseller account everything looks great!
I was told Cold Fusion 5 was $5 per domain few weeks ago. Now I sign up, its $10 per domain for Cold Fusion? Tell me its not true!

[admin]

Its always been $10. Not sure who would of said $5.

[hly]

I do not see where I can activate CF MX in the control panel (I do see the general Cold Fusion). I ran some specific MX code on one of my domains, and verified that the current version of CF is still 5.0

Any ideas?

[admin]

We run MX and 5.0 side by side on the servers. If you trun on CF MX should work as well.

[hly]

I don't think this is the case. Unless you guys developed some workaround, I am not even sure how you would even run them side by side.

In any case, I will assume you guys are very clever and managed to do so. But I still think that it is not running MX specific code.

I threw some test code up to test. For example, the <cfdump> tag. This is a MX specific tag. Using this tag as a test, CF errors out because it does not recognize it.

Also, try outputing this CF variable call:

#server.coldfusion.productVersion#

This should give you the version of Cold Fusion. It will clearly output "5.0"

Thanks.

h

[hly]

MX: yes, no?

I need to get confirmation, as potential clients are asking. Thanks!!!

-h

[Wildhunter]

That's Interesting... why is taking so long to answer???

Admin should know what version is installed, shouldn't they????

[admin]

As i said before.. MX is installed on all windows servers. It rus side by side with 5.0 and is working fine from the the tests we have ran.

[hly]

ok. i've discussed this with several CF developers. and i think that we are both right.

MX is probably running fine side by side, but for any given domain (or directory - not sure about this) ".cfm" pages can ONLY use one version at a time. I am positive that my pages are using version 5.0.

Now this a web server admin issue, not a CF admin issue, meaning the change needs to be done in IIS - or whatever you're using. I don't know how you guys set things up over there, so I can't say what needs to be done, but basically there needs to be a way to specify what version of CF we want to run, from account to account.

Just think about it: CF 5.0 and MX are two distinct processes - and there is only one distinct ".cfm" file type. How would that file know which version to use. We need to tell it what to use.

Thanks.

-H

[Wildhunter]

I just ran some test and I also have version 5 on my account. I couldn't see any place to "turn on" or "off" the MX in the control panel.

Can any body suggest any thing.... i am also not sure if you can run two *different* version of CF on same machine and i am not sure if it is a distributed system.

Any help/suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks

[admin]

Thanks for the info guys.. I will looking in to this. The person at macromedia had also told me you can run them this way and should work with out any changes.. Very odd..

So if you try to run any CF MX code it does not work right?

Sorry i have just never done any thing in CF..

[hly]

The company I work for works closely with Macromedia, so this is just not me talking. You definately can run them side by side, it's just not an ideal setup - not a "best pratices" as they say, especially if you're planning to host a heavy duty CF application. You would want a dedicated server for this if possible.

However, it's currently not too uncommon to see them run side by side in a shared hosting environment, which is understandable (you wouldn't want to prematurely neglect those clients still developing for 5.0).

I'm sure MX is running fine on the servers right now, it's just a matter of not being able to use it. Essentially, every time the web server sees a .cfm file it only knows to use CF 5.0 to process it.

So it's not a matter of our MX code working or not because we can't really tell anyway without it being process by CF MX.

-h

[admin]

I can't point .cfm to MX as then 5.0 would not work. I am still looking around for this.. From talks with them they said install it and it will work.. Guess its not that easy after all..

[hly]

True. You either have one or the other. According to Macromedia, however, MX should run all 5.0 code. And in fact, it should run better, speed wise.

We've only experienced conflict with the graphing function, but other than that all of our CF 5.0 apps have ran flawlessly on MX.

I guess its up to Vortech management at this point. MX is a great selling point right now, as Macromedia is pushing it hard.

Please keep everyone posted.